RAHUL BHATT

• Working as India Site Lead for Enterprise Data & Analytics (ED&A) organization consisting of teams working on Data/Analytics Engineering, Data quality, Data Ops, BI, AI Agents etc.
• Established and scaled team capabilities across Data and Analytics in India.
• Leading development in Data Engineering, Data Analytics, AI and Business Intelligence using modern data and analytics tech stack.
• Directing multi-year Analytics Modernization program for enterprise data platform enhancement.
• Implementing Data Governance and Data Operations strategies to optimize performance.
• Managing vendor relationships to support analytics initiatives and ensure alignment.
• Overseeing Program Management to deliver projects on time and within budget.
• Stakeholder engagement with various business lines including RevOps, CX, Legal et al.
• Facilitating cross-functional collaboration to drive innovative data, analytic & AI solutions.

Aug 2022 - May 2024 (VP - ETF Servicing Platform, Global Lead - ETF Data Platform)

• Led APAC ETF engineering team and ETF Data & Analytics Platform work stream to develop innovative ETF servicing solutions in the primary market space.
• Collaborated with global stakeholders to design strategic software products for ETF primary
  markets.
• Managed over 15 software engineers and external consultants to achieve project objectives.
  

Oct 2016 - July 2022 (VP - eTrading)

• Contributed as Senior member of software engineering team, focusing on Electronic Trading
  Platform development.
• Engineered Execution Management System for APAC securities markets, enhancing broker connectivity, FIX protocol integration and automated order routing.
• Winner of Global Hackathon 2020 from APAC region. Top four globally. Built Symphony Bot for Securities Lending trading.

• Contributed as senior member of software development team for new enterprise document capture product, Ephesoft Universe.
• Utilized Hadoop to cluster multiple PCs into a single supercomputer for enhanced performance.
• Integrated Apache Spark to accelerate data processing through in-memory data loading.
• Enabled rapid content identification through high-volume and high-velocity processing
  capabilities.

• Led technical team at Limetray (a food tech SaaS startup) to develop and deliver a brand new Point of Sale system within three months.
• Collaborated with sales team on product pitches and aligned with product managers on specifications.
• Owned design and development of new product, integrating front-end and back-end technologies.
• Promoted Scrum practices within development team to enhance collaboration and efficiency.

• Led development and design of client-server distributed application architecture using language-agnostic messaging framework.
• Implemented multithreaded Java server from scratch with Spring framework, enhancing throughput by 50%.
• Scaled software infrastructure to support new business processes, reducing frontend downtime by 99%.
• Optimized backend data servers performance by 25% and command servers by 60% through advanced tuning and batching mechanisms.
• Interacted with cross-functional business users to implement functionalities that enhanced user experience.
• Managed a team of 4 software engineers, overseeing full-stack development across multiple
  product lines.

• Contributed to software development for handling millions of lines of trade data sent daily from Prime Brokers for reconciliation and control.
• Developed high-performance system architecture within External Data Development team for a leading US based Hedge Fund Manager to enhance processing efficiency.
• Completed extensive training on global capital markets, trading, and risk management technologies.
• Acquired professional training in C++ and application design methodologies.
• Created Swift and FIXML parser using C++ and Xerces-C++ as a foundational training project.
• Got to work with some of the best folks out there in the field of software development and capital
  markets.